React Native February 2018 (v0.54.0) released

Welcome to the February 2018 release of React Native! This release includes work done by the React Native team and the community in January, and there are some big changes here after the holidays. Thanks for 270 commits from 87 contributors, you all are great! Here are a few highlights from the release:

Long awaited Blob changes: upload, download, fetch locally, and more

Sticky headers now work on inverted Lists

Update to the newest React, which deprecated some lifecycle methods and added new ones – expect Yellowbox until React Native is updated

Space-evenly is now there (sorry for the confusion with 0.52's release notes)

A lot of under-the-covers work on Yoga, iOS's Text and TextInput, and a ton of other areas

Multiple crash fixes

The changelog is arranged by the customary added, removed, changed, and fixed plus internal; the changes are also organized by platform.

If you want to get involved in the process of preparing releases and making changelog (yes, we need your help!), please get in touch with me.

Added

✨Blobs now can be: made from Strings, loaded by File using a FileReader API, uploaded and downloaded via XMLHttpRequest#fetch, and fetched on files to a local blob consistently (be56a3e and 854c233 by @satya164 and @fkgozali)